Sentence examples for opportune hitting from inspiring English sources

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Piniella said before Game 2 that the Cubs, who do not manufacture many runs, needed opportune hitting to win.

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Word of their anticipated departures could not have come at a less opportune time for the outlet, with the campaign season hitting full swing.

With The New Yorker's eighty-seventh Anniversary Issue hitting newsstands this week, we thought it would be an opportune time to look back at this forgotten figure from the magazine's beginnings.

"From Take Two's point of view this is one of their major properties so they wanted it to hit market at the most opportune time, and from the point of view of big-budget titles that's often the fourth-quarter slot when footfall is heavy," said Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at IHS Screen Digest.

The payout funds hit the market at a demographically opportune time, at least: the oldest baby boomers reached age 62 in 2008.

This was the American dream writ large and ridiculous, with protagonists who were deliciously ripe for satire.But Ms Greenfield's timing was awkwardly opportune, as a year later the credit crunch hit David's timeshare empire, Westgate Resorts.

The bid's executives insist they are where they planned to be by this time and have a strategy, including the use of ambassadors, such as David Beckham at next month's 2010 draw in South Africa, to hit the right chords at the opportune time.

He had hit five home runs this postseason, most, if not all, at opportune times.

By blocking Mr. Cordray's appointment after he received majority support in the Senate — he was impeded by a filibuster after being nominated in July — Congressional Republicans may have handed Mr. Obama another cudgel to hit them with this year, and the White House tried to pick an opportune time to wield it.

In just his fifth career game, the 22-year-old rookie from Cuba hit his fourth home run and it came at a very opportune time for the Dodgers.

Perhaps this is not the most opportune time to face a defense that has had to wait an extra week to finally hit an opponent.

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